Patch 10, the big one

Hi everyone, we've spent a LOT longer on this one and I can only thank each and every one of you for your patience and support, I truly hope you feel it was worth the wait.

As always, PLEASE START A NEW GAME AS THIS WILL CORRUPT OLDER SAVES AND CAUSE STRANGE BUGS. But now for the good stuff:

Features

• Tip Jars, there are now upgradable tip jars that will allow happy patrons to support your business

• New Intro, enjoy a bit more context into the start of your Pub venture

• A repairable front of house that will allow a greater markup tolerance once done

• New liquids, No longer will you be serving flat apple juice

• New lighting and dynamic shadows, atmosphere now included

• Further onboarding, hopeful removal of confusion for fresh players

• Project health, we've spent time to make sure the game will be ready for the future

• New crates and boxes for drinks

• New snow effects because it's Christmas!

• Added extra staff options so you can control when Barkeepers should serve or turn a customer away

• Fresh lighting pass to avoid black voids when upgrading the bar

Bug Fixes

• Main menu freeze upon game start

• Tablet not removing paint mode

• Part of cash register covered by text which blocked the mouse

• Customers went into stock room

• Placement arrow facing wrong direction

• Computer screen black

• Spawned under the ground

• Bar is dusty despite being clean

• Cleaner stopped working

• Drink Labels incorrect

• Ghost drinks taking up space despite not really existing

• Customers not leaving even after waiting beyond their patience timer

• Stock worker getting stuck

• Spirit drinkers refusing to leave

• Cleaners not cleaning shot glasses

• 1 Patch of dirt caused tons of dust

• Beer bottles showing as 0mls

• Glasses not despawning when shelf is moved

• Outside bin was highlighted when a full glass was being held

• Pause menu didn't pause the game

• Stockworker not replacing empty kegs from storage

• Modern pointlight had no material

• Customers never selected Absinthe

• Customers didn't reduce liquid amount in glass when drinking

Quality of Life improvements

• Items that are not level locked but have other requirements are now amber coloured instead of red

• Added further steps to help understand how the liquor specialist works

• Game now autochecks the players language

• Rep summary is now more understandable

• Mouse auto recentres during summary, cash reg usage and pause menu

• Spent money in summary is now red and not green

• Cleaners remove empty bottles instead of barkeepers now

• Stock workers use up the lowest quanitity crate instead of the first one they see

• Customers evenly distribute themselves between cash registers

• Added brightness options for game and the in-game computer in the office

Known Bugs

• Lighting sometimes flickers

• AI clipping into tables

• AI teleporting forward when standing up from a seat

• Fog can enter the bar

• Staff pouring can sometimes look strange

• Bottles sometimes clip their boxes

• Some boxes are overlapping the stock shelves

• Beer can look red when customer is drinking it

Thankyou again, I hope you all have a wonderful time this season and we'll be continuing to work on Pub Sim in the coming year, please let us know if you find any extra issues and we'll be sure to get it fixed as soon as we possibly can!